DBMS > Apache Druid vs. GridDB vs. MariaDB vs. Realm vs. SpaceTime

System Properties Comparison Apache Druid vs. GridDB vs. MariaDB vs. Realm vs. SpaceTime

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Name

Description

Open-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality data

Scalable in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and Big Data

MySQL application compatible open source RDBMS, enhanced with high availability, security, interoperability and performance capabilities. MariaDB ColumnStore provides a column-oriented storage engine and MariaDB Xpand supports distributed SQL.

A DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core Data

SpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with OQGraph storage engine
Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	3.34
Rank	#88	Overall
	#48	Relational DBMS
	#7	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.95
Rank	#128	Overall
	#10	Time Series DBMS

Score	93.21
Rank	#13	Overall
	#9	Relational DBMS

Score	7.60
Rank	#52	Overall
	#9	Document stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Website

druid.apache.org

griddb.net

mariadb.com

Site of MariaDB Corporation
mariadb.org

Site of MariaDB Foundation

realm.io

www.mireo.com/spacetime

Technical documentation

druid.apache.org/docs/latest/design

docs.griddb.net

mariadb.com/kb/en/library

realm.io/docs

Developer

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

Toshiba Corporation

MariaDB Corporation Ab (MariaDB Enterprise),
MariaDB Foundation (community MariaDB Server)

The lead developer Monty Widenius is the original author of MySQL

Realm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019

Mireo

Initial release

2012

2013

2009

Fork of MySQL, which was first released in 1995

2014

2020

Current release

29.0.1, April 2024

5.1, August 2022

11.3.2, February 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache license v2

Open Source

AGPL version 3 and Apache License, version 2.0 , commercial license (standard and advanced editions) also available

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial enterprise subscription available

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Unix

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
Solaris
Windows

ColumnStore storage engine not available on Windows

Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-less columns are supported

yes

Dynamic columns are supported

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

numerical, string, blob, geometry, boolean, timestamp

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL for querying

SQL92, SQL-like TQL (Toshiba Query Language)

yes

with proprietary extensions

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

.Net
Java

with Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift

C#
C++
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

PL/SQL compatibility added with version 10.3

runs within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessary

Triggers

yes

Change Listeners

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

manual/auto, time-based

Sharding

several options for horizontal partitioning and Sharding

none

Fixed-grid hypercubes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage engines

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

Real-time block device replication (DRBD)

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Connector for using GridDB as an input source and output destination for Hadoop MapReduce jobs

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate consistency within container, eventual consistency across containers

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID at container level

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

not for in-memory storage engine

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

with MEMORY storage engine

yes

In-Memory realm

User concepts

Access control

RBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and system

Access rights for users can be defined per database

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

Factory IoT, Automative Industry, Energy, BEMS, Smart Community, Monitoring system.
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Web, SaaS and Cloud operational applications that require high availability, scalability...
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Key customers

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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

Open Source license (AGPL v3 & Apache v2) Commercial license (subscription)
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